The Federal Advisory Committee for the US Federal Vaccine is preparing to re -evaluate the children’s vaccination schedule and re -review long -term immunization, which is a step that has caused an alarm for possible changes in the vaccine recommendations established.
On Wednesday (June 25), the newly appointed Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time under the new chairman Martin Kalldorff.
Kalldorff announced the creation of two new working groups: one to check the cumulative effects of all recommended vaccines in children and adolescents and the other to review vaccines that have not been evaluated in more than seven years.
“The number of vaccines that our children and adolescents receive today exceeds what children receive in most other developed nations and what most of us received in this room when we were children,” Kalldorff said during the meeting.
He added: “In addition to studying and evaluating individual vaccines, it is important to evaluate the cumulative effect of the recommended vaccine plan. This includes interaction effects between different vaccines, total number of vaccines, cumulative number of vaccines and relative timing.”
Main vaccines against hepatitis B and MMR
Kalldorff explained that among the topics that the committee could consider, it is whether hepatitis B shots should continue to be administered to newborns before the hospital is released.
The group may also consider the possibility of recommending separate measles, mumps and rubble (MMR) and Varicella vaccines instead of a combined MMRV shot and look at the timing of the MMR doses to deal with certain religious objections.
“It was supposed to be a regular practice of an aceti, but it was not done in a thorough and systematic way,” Kalldorff said. “We will learn more about vaccines over time, and to remain faithful to evidence -based medicine, we have duty and responsibility to keep up with scientific research.”
Shock
At the beginning of this month, Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He removed all 17 members of the previous ACCIP and appointed eight new members, many of whom expressed skepticism about child vaccines.
Kennedy had previously criticized current vaccines.
“When I was a child, I got three vaccines,” Kennedy said. “Today they receive 69 to 92 vaccines between conception and when it is 18 years of age.”
Kennedy often claimed that today’s vaccination schedule is excessive and is not sufficiently explored.
Pediatrics are pushing back
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) quickly condemned this development. In the video, AAP said: “Immunization policy is no longer a credible process through the AAP.”
The Group has undertook to continue publishing their own independent recommendations of the Children’s Vaccine regardless of the actions of the ACCIPE.
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